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We live in a world where a mechanistic, “machine” view of organizations has served for some time. The end of this era is upon us, and the transition to a living-systems view is well underway. Organizations are more like living things than they are like machines. Without getting into all the details of “why,” this essay assumes the living-systems view is the more accurate view, the more useful view. The view that is actually closer to reality. In the living-systems view, change is not “managed"....Read More »

Caterfly presents: OpenSpace Agility with Daniel Mezick - 27 - 28 October 16, London. A new approach to introducing collaborative transformation at scale: staff-led innovation for introducing new systems of working or culture shift. Daniel brings his success in bringing teams alive with Agile, and together we'll show you how to use the model across a broad range of contexts and applications.Read More »

This blog explores the rationale for having a practical guide on implementing agile at scale in organisations using a unique approach of inviting people in to co-create change together and iteratively.Read More »

Book review of Open Space Agilitiy Handbook:
This is a brilliant how-to book. It addresses the problem of resistance and poor engagement in agile adoptions and organisational change. Why is it, for instance, that the majority of agile adoptions, despite huge investments, fail? The approach presented resolves root causes and offers a completely fresh and novel way of implementing agile and organisational transformation...Read More »

Daniel Mezick filmed an interview he did with a Senior Director of Product Development after their IT department had undergone a complete Open Agile Adoption. The linked page contains a series of video testimonials of Open Agile Adoptions in the form of client interviews:Read More »

A good part of our approach in Caterfly was initially inspired by Open Agile Adoption (OAA) developed by Daniel Mezick. Open Agile Adoption itself applies the work of Harrison Owen in Open Space Technology. system, and a derivative of Prime OS. The Prime OS blueprint, or 'source code', is detailed here.Read More »

OPEN SMART TRANSFORMATION (OST) MODEL Version 1.0 Copyright (C) Martin Grimshaw, Francois Knuchel & Daniel Mezick (author of Prime/OS™) 2014-15 Shared under a ‘Free Culture’ ‘Attribution-Share Alike’ Creative Commons Licence CC BY-SA 4.0 : You may use this work as you like, including creating derivatives and commercial use, but you MUST provide proper attribution and share your work [...]Read More »

Research and resources: Some of the essential work that underpins our own, including The failure of change management programmes, Open Space references, and approaches to Smarter Working such as Lean, Agile and Sociocracy, and the Open Smart Transformation model...
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